Ear and tail docking involve surgically removing part of a dog’s ears or tail. This practice, which has been around for centuries, originally aimed to prevent injuries in hunting and working dogs.

When did dog tail docking start? The ancient Romans believed that amputation of the tail tip and/or parts of the dog’s tongue could protect it from contracting rabies, which was then rampant all over ...

At one time, dogs weren’t pets. Instead, they had jobs and consequently had a docked tail. Dogs worked on farms and in the military and helped with hunting, fighting, ratting, and baiting. That’s not ...

Two dying puppies dropped off at a Philadelphia animal hospital led to a Pennsylvania SPCA investigation that rescued 12 more dogs from two city properties, at one of which animals were undergoing ...

The Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said it has uncovered an illegal ear cropping and tail docking operation, in which 14 dogs were seized - some of them near death when ...

A dog has been banned from competing at Crufts after she had to have her tail amputated because she wagged it too vigorously. Dalmatian Vizsla cross Gwen, three, suffered from "happy tail syndrome" - ...

The government of the Canadian province of Quebec has taken another step forward in its efforts to ban many procedures for animals deemed non-essential, such as declawing, tail docking, devocalization ...